What Should Christians Believe about the Causes of Demon Possession?

[Ben1445]

It’s better to not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of the scornful.

If people submit themselves to God, they will not need to be concerned with the devil. God in us is greater. This is what a Christian needs to know.

 

[Ben1445]

In the first instance, the difference is that I would know and believe that drug cartels exist.

And you also believe in demons. Clearly the illustration doesn’t apply to you. But it does apply to other people.

Concerning those who do not believe that demons exist, they do knowingly and willingly involve themselves in those activities, but they do not, however, thereby knowingly and willingly give demons permission to possess them because they do not believe that the demons even exist.

Ask and it shall be given. Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be open to you.

Now what are you asking for or seeking for? What are you knocking on?
People will play pandora and wonder why they get stung. When Pandora opened the box, she did not know what was in it or want what was in it but that didn’t stop her from getting involved.

What's more, consider that people can drink poisonous liquids and be poisoned without any knowledge that they were drinking a poisonous liquid. People can completely unknowingly intake hallucinogenic substances and suffer horrible consequences, but it would not be true that they knowingly did so.

Those are not demons. That is just part of life in this world as a human being. We all sin. We all die of something.

 

[Ascetic X]

It’s better to not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of the scornful.

If people submit themselves to God, they will not need to be concerned with the devil. God in us is greater. This is what a Christian needs to know.

I agree. We do not need to morbidly ponder and debate about how people get possessed. The scriptures do not explain all the details, it just states that certain individuals had evil spirits inside them.

 

[Scripture More Accurately]

And you also believe in demons. Clearly the illustration doesn’t apply to you. But it does apply to other people.


Ask and it shall be given. Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be open to you.

Now what are you asking for or seeking for? What are you knocking on?
People will play pandora and wonder why they get stung. When Pandora opened the box, she did not know what was in it or want what was in it but that didn’t stop her from getting involved.

Those are not demons. That is just part of life in this world as a human being. We all sin. We all die of something.

Yes, I do believe in demons.

Multitudes of other Christians also believe in demons, but they deny that certain things can cause demon possession. Because the Bible does not seem to reveal anything specific about what has caused people to be possessed and about what cannot cause possession, there is no biblical basis therefore to claim that such and such that the Bible does not talk about cannot and does not cause possession.

 

[Ben1445]

Yes, I do believe in demons.

Multitudes of other Christians also believe in demons, but they deny that certain things can cause demon possession. Because the Bible does not seem to reveal anything specific about what has caused people to be possessed, there is no biblical basis therefore to claim that such and such that the Bible does not talk about cannot and does not cause possession.

In like fashion, you have yet to show anything that shows that people are taken possession of by devils against their will without having put themselves into the position that they are in. This is why people talk about opening themselves up to demons.
And why should it be surprising that Africa, Asia and even South American countries who have a heavy presence of witchcraft also have higher levels of demonic activity. If and as more civilized countries get further into occult practices, they will also suffer from the same problems. But the point is that they have saturated themselves with the occult and will be confronted by it more often.